Word: westerners
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...names of University graduates have appeared on recent casualty lists as having been slightly wounded. They are Lieutenant Marland C. Hobbs '17 and Lieutenant John Keveney '15, both of whom were engaged in the recent defensive operations on the western front...
Word has also been received that Lieutenant Francis P. Magoun '16 has been wounded flying on the western front. Last fall he was commissioned second lieutenant in the British Royal Flying Corps, as a result of his unusual skill and daring while fighting in the scouts' division of the flying corps. On December 6, 1917, he brought down a German aviator who had previously overcome 16 Allied planes...
...present the library contains many copies of all the important regulations issued by the War Department, including such books as the "Engineers' Field Manual," "Rules of Land Warfare," and "Landscape Sketching." A number of detailed maps of the western front are now on exhibition. There are also plans of the latest bombs and hand grenades and a collection of photographs illustrating trench life and warfare. F. W. C. Hersey '99, of the Department of English, is in charge of the library...
...dance, which will probably begin at 9 o'clock on the night of June 18, in the Union, will be very informal, and there will probably be no boxes. Before the dance, however, the class will meet in the western part of the Yard for small club spreads. While the decorations will be less elaborate than in previous years, boxes will be erected and the Yard will be fenced off between University and Thayer and University and Weld Halls. It has been customary to hold the spreads both in the Yard, in Memorial Hall and the Delta, but conditions this...
...military situation on the Western Front is grave and is likely to continue grave for some weeks to come. The German attack in France aims at cutting the British lines of communication and thereby isolating Haig's army, by breaking the line Amiens-Havre, and perhaps subsequently the line Abbeville-Havre. The operations on both sides raise many questions that it is not advisable to debate at the present juncture. There are two minor points, however, that I will venture to indicate...